Europe’s Armies and Future Armageddon

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1912

Europe’s Armies and Future Armageddon

“EUROPE has now reached a point where the size of her armies has become a matter for anxious comparison. So here are some of the figures that play a part in a future Armageddon. Counting the active list and reserves,—that is to say, all trained men,—England can put into the field 970,864 soldiers, France 4,777,000, Austria 2,690,365, Russia 6,739,418, and Germany 4,768,520. There are, of course, other nations that would try to be helpful in a smaller way, and there are quite a number of war-ships that would give maritime variety to the scene. So that a rough estimate of the military strength of Europe in this “year of our Lord,” 1912, shows the existence of some 20,000,000 men fostered and trained by science, art, and finance to regard killing one another as their chief aim in life.”